Collaborate Disseminate
Pantographs were once used as simple mechanical devices for a range of tasks, including duplicating simple line drawings. [Tim] decided to make a modern electronic version that spits out G-Code …read more Continue reading Tracing In 2D and 3D With Hall Effect Sensors
Andy Greenberg wrote a long article — an excerpt from his new book — on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child porn ring.
Within a few years of Bitcoin’s arrival, academic security researchers — and then companies like Chainalysis — began to tear gaping holes in the masks separating Bitcoin users’ addresses and their real-world identities. They could follow bitcoins on the blockchain as they moved from address to address until they reached one that could be tied to a known identity. In some cases, an investigator could learn someone’s Bitcoin addresses by transacting with them, the way an undercover narcotics agent might conduct a buy-and-bust. In other cases, they could trace a target’s coins to an account at a cryptocurrency exchange where financial regulations required users to prove their identity. A quick subpoena to the exchange from one of Chainalysis’ customers in law enforcement was then enough to strip away any illusion of Bitcoin’s anonymity…
Police in South Australia have arrested a man for allegedly tampering with Covid-19 QR codes, replacing them with fake codes that could take the public to anti-vaxxer websites. Continue reading Arrest after man replaces official COVID-19 check-in signs with anti-vaxxer QR code
Some 16,000 Coronavirus cases in the UK went missing after the Excel spreadsheet they were being recorded in reached its maximum limit, and did not allow the automated process to add any more names. Continue reading UK loses 16,000 COVID-19 cases due to Excel spreadsheet snafu
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A scam involving restaurant bookings at The Ritz is suitably sophisticated, the second wave of UK coronavirus testing apps, and we take a look at one of the biggest studies ever into the scourge of robocalls.
All this and much more is discussed in t… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #192: Ritz and robocalls with Rory
In the monitoring world, typically when you spin up a new instance, you pay a fee to monitor it. If you are particularly active in any given month, that can result in a hefty bill at the end of the month. That leads to limiting what you choose to monitor to control costs. New Relic […] Continue reading New Relic is changing its pricing model to encourage broader monitoring
Login chaos for the UK’s contact tracing service, our drill-down on the Britain’s Huawei 5G ban, MGM’s blockbuster breach, and how to pronounce “Gigabyte.”
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the a… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #187: Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up
Login chaos for England’s contact tracing service, our drill-down on the Britain’s Huawei 5G ban, MGM’s blockbuster breach, and how to pronounce “Gigabyte.”
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #187: Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up
Lightrun, a Tel Aviv-based startup that makes it easier for developers to debug their production code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from a number fo engineering executives from several Fortune 500 firms. The company, which was co-founded by Ilan Peleg (who, in […] Continue reading Lightrun raises $4M for its continuous debugging and observability platform